Man Utd: New stadium location revealed 350m from Old Trafford

Manchester United have revealed the location of their planned new 100,000-seat stadium – around 350 meters north-west of their existing Old Trafford ground.

Last month, the Premier League club acquired a 25-acre site for the proposed stadium – a site currently partly used by a go-kart track.

The images were unveiled for the first time on Thursday as part of a multi-billion pound draft masterplan for regeneration projects around the wider Old Trafford area known as Trafford Wharfside.

There is no trident in the pictures, or a canopy – the interesting ‘circus tent’ concept – unveiled by minority owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe in March 2025, but United officials insist the idea has not been scrapped.

The plans shown, which would include the removal of the famous Lou McCarey’s fish and chip shop at the top of Sir Matt Busby Way, are an outline of what could be built and are not set in stone.

What the actual stadium will look like will be part of the next phase of negotiations.

“In the next few weeks we are going to look at the design of the stadium,” said Colette Roche, United’s chief executive of new stadium development.

“We hope to share something by the end of this calendar year or early next.”

Pressed on when the stadium might be ready to open, Roche declined to give an answer.

“We’re not going to put a date on it. We want to fix it.”

United added that no decision has been made about the future of the existing Old Trafford stadium.

The 150-hectare Trafford Wharfside development will create a neighborhood with 15,000 new homes and is claimed to lead to 48,000 local jobs.